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Just another WordPress siteWed, 03 May 2017 23:02:21 +0000ru-RUhourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4The Fascinating History of McDonald’shttp://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=30
http://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=30#respondWed, 03 May 2017 23:00:19 +0000http://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=30McDonald’s has to be up there as one of the global powerhouses, with Google, Starbucks and of course arch rivals including Burger King and KFC. We all secretly love a nice McDonald’s every now and then, and it can’t be denied that even though it’s no good for us, it tastes so good. But where & when did it all start, and what happened for it to become this culinary juggernaut? That’s what we’re here to find out, looking decade by decade at the highs and lows of the golden arches.

1940- “The Airdrome” is moved to San Bernardino, California by Brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald, opening McDonald’s Bar-B-Q restaurant with a 25 item barbeque menu.

1948- With almost all profits coming from burgers, the brothers closed for remodelling adding their “Speedee Service System”, a streamlined burger line. It re-opened selling 9 items with burgers at 15 cents. Speedee became the company symbol, a mini animated chef.

1952- The Golden Arches are created by architect Stanley Clark Meston. The brothers started franchising their chain with Neil Fox opening the first in Arizona. The third is the oldest McDonald’s still in operation.

1954- Milkshake-mixer salesman Ray Kroc asks the brothers to let him franchise McDonald’s restaurants outside California and Arizona. He tried to open one at the unopened Disneyland.

1959- The first Hawaiian McDonald’s and the 100th opens in Wisconsin. McDonald’s begin billboard advertising.

The 1960s

1961- The brothers sell Kroc the business rights for $2.7 million, funds borrowed from investors. Kroc uses a new slashed golden M logo for the company. Hamburger University opens in Illinois, in a McDonald’s restaurant.

1962- McDonald’s first national magazine ad appears in Life magazine. The first restaurant with seating opens in Colorado. The Golden Arches logo becomes McDonald’s logo.

1963- The one billionth hamburger is sold. The 500th restaurant opens in Ohio. The filet-o-fish is introduced.

1965- Their 10th anniversary is celebrated by offering public stock at $22.50 a share. Ronald McDonald appears in the first TV commercial on a flying hamburger on NBC/CBS stations.

1967- The first restaurant in a US territory opens in Puerto Rico and the first outside the US opens in British Columbia. The stand-alone restaurant common today is introduced.

1968- The Big Mac is added to the nationwide menu alongside The Hot Apple pie. The 1000th McDonald’s restaurant opens in Illinois. McDonald’s air lifts hamburgers to homesick US athletes in France, starting their support of the Olympics.

The 1970s

1970- McDonald’s opens in Costa Rica, the 3rd country after the US and Canada.

1971- The first Asian McDonald’s opens in July in Japan. In August, the first European McDonald’s outlet opens in the Netherlands. The first McDonald’s in Germany opens being the first to sell alcohol. The first Australian McDonald’s opens.

1973- The first McDonald’s Playland opens in California. The Quarter Pounder is released.

1974- November 13 saw the first UK, and overall 3000th restaurant opens in Woolwich, London.

1975- The first Drive-Thru is opened in Arizona to serve nearby Fort Huachuca’s soldiers who couldn’t wear army clothing outside their cars. The egg McMuffin is introduced.

1978- The 5000th McDonald’s restaurant opens in Japan. The Hamburger University its 15,000th graduate.

1979- The Happy Meal is introduced in the U.S with a circus wagon theme.

The 1980s
1980- The first ever poultry item, the McChicken sandwich, is introduced and fails. The 6000th restaurant opens in Munich, Germany. The first restaurants open in Spain, Denmark and the Philippines.

1983- By the end of the year, McDonald’s is in 32 countries with 7778 restaurants. Chicken nuggets are introduced to all restaurants.

1984- Ray Kroc dies. McDonald’s were a main sponsor of the Summer Olympics, and U.S. branches lose money on the game; “When The US Wins, You Win” with many US medal winners after a Soviet boycott of the games.

1985- The original store re-opens as a museum.

1987- The first Scottish store opened, 13 years after its first UK appearance.

1988- The first Korean and Serbian restaurant is launched, Fortune Magazine named McDonald’s hamburgers as one of the 100 best products America make. The 10,000th restaurant opens in Virginia.

The 1990s

1990- The first McDonald’s opens in Moscow and China, Moscow’s being the world’s largest and was opened by McDonald’s Canada “for political reasons”.

1991- McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in Portugal.

1992- The first McDonald’s opens in Africa and Poland. A new largest opens in Beijing with 700+ seats.

1993- The first Saudi Arabian restaurant opens and the first one at sea on the Silja Europa, sailing between Helsinki and Stockholm. McCafé is launched in Australia spreading to 13 countries by 2002, the first in the US opens in 2001 and by 2003 it was the largest coffee shop brand in Australia and New Zealand.

1995- For a more mature image, McDonald’s release the Arch Deluxe sandwich and a huge ad campaign “have you had your break today?” and, after the apartheid, the first South African McDonald’s opens.

1996- The First McDonald’s opens in Belarus, Peru and India, marking the 100th country and beyond.

1997- The McFlurry is invented by a Canadian franchise.

1998- The first Pakistani restaurant opens and McDonald’s begins its 7-year partnership with Disney/Pixar.

2002- McDonald’s posts its first quarterly loss of $344m and responds with higher quality and variety of products and withdraws from 3 countries including Bolivia, whilst closing 175 failing restaurants. McHappy day, or World’s children day, is established for children everywhere, since its launch it has raised $170 million. The $1 menu is launched in the US.

2003- McDonald’s start the “I’m lovin’ it” campaign promoting a healthier and higher-quality image. They have a $126M loss for the fourth quarter and the ‘plan to win’ framework is launched as well as premium salads, the McGriddles and chicken selects.

2005- McDonald’s trial call centres for drive-thru orders. The North Dakota center, takes orders from over a dozen stores in Oregon and Washington mainly driven by labour costs, the minimum wage in North Dakota was 40% lower than Oregon or Washington. In this year Singapore start a McDelivery service 24/7 with customers ordering over the phone.

2006- Nutritional information is displayed on all packaging with the new menu focusing on chicken, salads, and “fresh foods”. McDonald’s and Disney’s deal ends and the DreamWorks Animation partnership begins.

2008- McDonald’s start using new packaging and a new menu with realistic photos of plated food and glassed drinks. It goes nationwide in 2009 and worldwide in 2010.

2009- The 20th Century Fox partnership begins.

The 2010s

2010- Subway steals the title of largest single-brand chain and largest global restaurant operator.

2011- A deal is made with the Marine Stewardship Council to certify the fish used for the Filet-O-Fish sold in Europe. McDonald’s now operate in 119 countries.

2012- Drive-thru menus begin displaying items’ calories.

2013- The first Vietnamese restaurant is awarded to the son-in-law of the prime minister. Sydney, Australia trials home delivery with online ordering via Menulog.

2015- US roll-out all-day breakfasts and the whole world look in awe. The first McDonald’s Next store, an updated store with a more gourmet bespoke menu, opened in Hong Kong.

2016- McDonald’s report 10 years’ growth with figures from their first-quarter. They work on the “Follow Our Foodsteps” campaign, a virtual reality story showing each step of production from farm to table.

So there we have it, from the humble begins of a typical American barbeque shack to a global superpower covering over 100 countries with a university, a sports team and a global charity. You have to admire the sheer determination of Kroc, he definitely saw the potential and he took it as far as he could and after his death the wheels carried on turning. McDonald’s stay such a big company by constantly adapting, getting with the times offering online ordering systems, a better menu and changing according to demand, whilst also stepping on the little guy and contributing to the world obesity problem but that’s for another day. Whatever the condition of their food, the brand is still growing, opening in new countries and spreading like a plague and there really is no sign of stopping.

]]>http://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?feed=rss2&p=30020 Mouth-Watering Facts About Burger Kinghttp://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=27
http://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=27#respondWed, 03 May 2017 22:58:47 +0000http://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=27Everyone has that one food that makes their mouth water at the sheer mention of it, for me it’s the “Triple Whopper”, a gargantuan pile of deliciousness and it’s only found at Burger King. Here we’re going to look at 20 mouth-watering (and sometimes eye-watering) facts about this fast food God!

Burger King was founded in the 1950s by businessmen James McLamore and David R. Edgerton and was old to Pillsbury in 1967.

On the 11th December 1999 a toddler suffocated whilst playing with a Burger King Pokémon toy. This was the first Burger King toy related death.

Burger King are often held as the first fast food outlet to make deals with big budget films to promote their products, in 1977 Burger King teamed up with Star Wars to sell character glasses.

In Mattoon, U.S, a Burger King exists that has no affiliation to the franchise. The Mattoon Burger King existed before the franchise tried to move into the town.

In Australia, Burger King is known as Hungry Jacks due to a copyright infringement of an existing company.

The “Suicide Burger” is an off-menu 800 calorie artery clogger consisting of four burger patties and cheese slices, bacon, and special sauce.

Burger King has a deluxe hidden system, known as the ‘Gold Card’. Held by celebs like Hugh Laurie and Jay Leno the card gives them free meals.

Burger King branched out into Hot Dogs in recent years, promoting it on Twitter in 2016, offering a range of toppings including ‘whopper’.

Burger King offer delivery in over 13 US states including Alabama, Virginia, Utah and Ohio.

In Japan, and possibly America, Black Buns exist as an alternate to the plain and apparently unappealing brown bun.

Burger King took its variety to new heights in 2016, creating the ‘Whopperito’ a Whopper burger in a flour tortilla.

In May 2016, Burger King opened a spa in one of it’s restaurants in Helsinki, Finland!

Worldwide, over 11 million customers visit Burger King Restaurants for their burger fix.

Even with their success, burger king still live in the shadow of McDonald’s, advertising themselves as the ‘second largest fast food hamburger chain’.

Burger King offer something known as the “CROISSAN’WICH” and in my opinion it decimates the McDonald’s McMuffin contender.

Burger King was born after its owners visited a McDonald’s and were inspired to open their own version with a newly copyrighted broiler that cooked 12 burgers at once.

In 1955 Burger King’s logo was a King atop a burger holding an oversized drink, this soon lost fashion and developed in 1969 into a bun sandwiching the words “Burger King”.

The new logo was born in 1998 and is now a world renowned fast food icon.

In 2010, Brazilian based 3G Capital purchased Burger King for a staggering $3.3 billion.

Whether you like Burger King or not, you have to admit their story is that of rags to riches, one couple with a dream that ends in a major worldwide brand that it is today. From amazing burgers to some downright wacky ideas, Burger King always try to push the boundaries in the fast food game and I’m sure we’re nowhere near the end of that journey yet.

]]>http://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?feed=rss2&p=270The Differences Between Prayer and Meditationhttp://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=24
http://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=24#respondWed, 03 May 2017 22:54:40 +0000http://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=24There have been many discussions over the usefulness of prayer and meditation. But what’s the difference? Are there any similarities between the two?

Definitions

Let’s look at the definitions to see if we find any similarities or differences:

Prayer: to make a request in a humble manner; to address God or a god with adoration, confession, supplication, or thanksgiving

Meditate: to engage in mental exercise (as concentration on one’s breathing or repetition of a mantra) for the purpose of reaching a heightened level of spiritual awareness

They both use the mind. They both are concentrated thoughts. But their goals are different.

In theory, there are 7 billion different types of prayer. There are also 7 billion different types of meditation. Each person has a different goal for their session. Thousands of different prayers exist, as do thousands of meditations. Both can be silent or spoken aloud.

It would be silly to try and generalize, saying that all prayers are a certain way, and all meditations are a certain way.

Alas, we’re not here to make friends. We’re here to state the facts. Call me silly and let’s do this.

The Facts

Prayers are an integral part for monotheistic religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam. When people sit down to pray, it’s a time for sending thoughts to God (or Yahweh or Allah) and praising Him. There are prayers for the sick and for those less fortunate than the one praying. There are prayers for forgiveness. Most prayers, though, include a part or all of these components. In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus talks about praising God and asking for His blessing and safety.

Meditations are found all over the world, especially in Eastern religions. Most of these meditations come from Buddhism and its founder, Siddhartha Gautama, aka Buddha. Rather than sending thoughts to one God and turning outward, most meditations focus within the person’s soul in order to reach a higher sense of spiritual awareness. Meditations follow a certain formality; sit in silence and put certain thoughts (or no thoughts) in your mind. Mindfulness meditation is the most popular meditation because it’s one of the easiest meditations to learn. You sit there and follow your breath.

These are just a few differences. What does science have to say about both?

Scientific Reasoning

Scientific studies on meditations are much more prevalent, possibly because meditations are secular in nature. Prayers sometimes have a negative connotation, and the prayers for any religion will be different not just from religion to religion, but from denomination to denomination and congregation to congregation.

With the few studies we do have on prayer, here’s what they have to say about prayer:

Prayer helps with self-control.

Prayer helps with forgiveness.

Prayer helps with stress.

Guess what the studies say about meditations?

Meditation makes you less stressed out.

Meditation helps with self-control.

Meditation helps with empathy.

Meditation helps us forgive ourselves and others.

Other Similarities

At their core, meditations and prayers are the same. Both are ways for people to sit still and reflect. Both are used for good intentions – most of the time. And both meditations and prayers make you a better person. But the results are not the main focus of either prayers or meditations. They come about because we all are more aware of our surroundings. Our actions, not our thoughts alone, will change the world.

The best way to summarize the differences is this: prayers look up, and meditations look in. And no matter if you pray to a higher power or meditate with your soul for strength, it will change your life for the better.

]]>http://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?feed=rss2&p=24021 забавный факт о группе Twenty One Pilotshttp://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=18
http://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=18#respondWed, 03 May 2017 22:42:47 +0000http://thefactsite.gltn.ru/?p=18Twenty One Pilots has surprised just about everyone in the music industry for not only taking a nice chunk of the alternative niche but creating a sub niche of their own. Once they were three members but are now two, a vocalist and drummer. They’ve grown to take on sold out venues and garner awards and nominations as well as list in the top spots of the premier music charts. They have their own fan base that continues to grow and they continue to amaze the industry and public with innovative ways to release their songs which have made history with multiple listings at the same time on the big charts. If you love Twenty One Pilots, here are 21 fun facts you must read.

All four members, past and present of Twenty One Pilots are from Columbus, Ohio. Friends from the beginning they created the unique sound that has drawn so many fans to them and blazing rise to the tops of the charts.

They were started in 2009 by Tyler Joseph, Nick Thomas and Chris Salih. The trio garnered notice from the public from the start, but changes in their line up brought about a new invigorating product that the public and record companies were hungry for.

Thomas and Salih left the group in 2011, as they didn’t have time to commit to the band. They were replaced by drummer Josh Dun later that year.

They started as a self-releasing band of their songs but got the attention of about a dozen top record labels during a sold out performance at the Columbus’ Newport Music Hall in November 2011.

They’re signed by Fueled by Ramen, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records since 2012.

Twenty One Pilots didn’t have a major hit until their fourth album, Blurryface in May of 2015. Their first single from the album is called ‘Fairly Local’.

They’re the first alternative group to have two top ten singles run concurrently in the US in 2015, ‘Stressed Out’ and ‘Ride’ from the album Blurryface from the same year.

They performed the song ‘Heathens’ for the 2016 blockbuster anti-superhero flick, Suicide Squad.

Their band name comes from the play, All My Sons by Arthur Miller. The play focuses on a man who is responsible for the deaths of 21 pilots whose planes had faulty parts he’d sold.

In 2011, drummer Josh Dun signed on with Twenty One Pilots, after being the live drummer for the band ‘House of Heroes’.

Their second album, Regional At Best was released as a free CD at the New Albany High School in Columbus, Ohio in 2011.

The band actually once gave away two free unreleased songs in 2011 via their websites newsletter. The songs are ‘House of Gold’ and ‘Two’.

The band actually worked with Greg Wells, the producer of such superstar artists like Katy Perry and Adele, on their first full length album with Fueled by Ramen, ‘Vessel’. That album was released on 8thJanuary 2013, reaching an ironic 21 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Twenty One Pilots is one of only three musical acts to have two singles appear simultaneously in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100.

Their fan base is known as the Skeleton Clique.

Josh Dun was born on 18th June 1988 in Columbus, Ohio. He’s got a brother named Jordan and two sisters, Ashley and Abigail. He’s a self-taught drummer too. Dun, like Tyler is a devout Christian too.

They’ve been nominated by the American Music Awards, AP Music Awards, ARIA Awards, Billboard Music Awards, iHeartRadio Music Awards, MTV Europe Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, MuchMusic Video Awards, and Teen Choice Awards – to name a few.

Twenty One Pilots made their late night debut on the Conan O’Brien Show on 8th August 2013.

Twenty One Pilots is listed in four categories, Rock, Alternative Hip Hop, Indie-pop, and Electro-pop.

The band’s Twitter profile is @twentyonepilots.

The red armbands they wear symbolize the character they made up called Blurryface, who is actually a representation of all of the things that people are insecure about.